Autechre - Incunabula, Amber, Tri Repetae. Vinyl Re-issues.
It seems like only yesterday I was strapped into an aircraft seat looking at a wing listening to 24 bit lossless elseq 1-5.
Seattle to NY. Perfect timing.
Now I'm having an easier time of it sat on a rock on a cold and blustery beach watching the clouds go by while listening to Kalpol Introl, the first track from their 1993 debut album Incunabula, re-released on vinyl via Warp Records along with Amber and Tri Repetae.
I say having an easier time of it because these early releases not only come bundled with memories, but they also have a semblance of the familar, while elseq on the other hand was anything but.
Maybe that's why I loved almost ever hour of it.
Basscadet is up now, and the memory floodgates are wide open. I need to crack open my 90's stuff and take another listen, and what better time to start but right now while I already am.
Some people listen to old music all the time, especially non-electronic music listeners, but one of the secret pledges that the electronic music listener makes, without even knowing they made it, is to listen to as much new music as possible, even if it means not listening to music recorded twenty or so years ago that is actually newer sounding than music recorded last week.
Without getting too far ahead of ourselves take Eggshell, for example. I'm hearing a similar refrain heard on the recently released David Gilmour and The Orb album, with Kraftwerk as the backing band, and why not.
A few tracks later and Windwind is building in a similar way, in my mind anyway, as elseq-5 does, albeit a lot more quickly and in an intrinsically different way.
Montreal, off their 1994 release Amber, the inspiration for at least three or four tracks that came along a couple of months or years later, one of which was huge, spawning more no doubt. A massive wannabe hit snowball rolling down the homework mountain, all from this one track.
Finally Rotar from Tri Repeta, released a year later, and we're getting closer to what they're up to today, or at least last April anyway.
It's been a trip, now time to lay down somewhere totally un-civilized and listen to the vinyl versions.